Schloss Favorite, Baroque hunting lodge in Ludwigsburg, Germany.

Schloss Favorite is a pleasure palace built in Baroque style with later Neo-classical additions, featuring a flat-roofed design with terraces overlooking the park grounds. The building shows two distinct architectural periods blended together, as some sections were updated while others preserved their original character.

Schloss Favorite was built between 1717 and 1723 for Duke Eberhard Ludwig of Württemberg to designs by Donato Giuseppe Frisoni, modelled on the Gartenpalais in Vienna. It was conceived from the start as a hunting lodge and summer villa. In 1748 it formed the backdrop for fireworks at the wedding of Duke Carl Eugen. From 1806 King Frederick I turned the park into a game enclosure, and Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret renovated the interiors in Neoclassical style.

The rooms reveal how a pleasure palace functioned in daily aristocratic life, with carefully arranged spaces meant for entertainment and leisurely pursuits. You can see how the design shaped the way guests moved through the building and socialized.

The palace stands on a rise in the Favoritepark, reached from Ludwigsburg Palace along a straight avenue. The park is laid out as a landscape garden and also serves as an animal park. The furnished state rooms are shown as part of a guided tour of the main palace; the building is looked after by the State Castles and Gardens of Baden-Württemberg.

The palace became known across Germany from 1987 as the filming location of the SWR talk show "Nachtcafé" with Wieland Backes, recorded on Thursdays and broadcast on Friday evenings. In 2003, the two-part film "Pride and Passion" was shot here with Bettina Zimmermann, Stefan Jürgens and Sonja Kirchberger in the main roles.